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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson congratulated China for successfully landing a rover on Mars, but also used the milestone to warn Congress of China's competitive threat to American leadership in human spaceflight. SpaceNe...

It appears that China will be one of the first challenges for NASA's new leaders.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 26, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

Researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics published a paper last week that just might explain a mysterious gap in planet sizes beyond our solar system. Planets between 1.5 and 2 time...

The May 22 launch will be the third crewed spaceflight of the suborbital VSS Unity vehicle.

The measures countries have taken in response to COVID-19, ranging from large-scale lockdowns to the mass deployment of personal protective equipment, have resulted in environmental effects.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.

Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar system altogether so that their meteor showers are hard to detect. From a new meteor shower s...

Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This is the most ancient galaxy of i...

The Expedition 65 crew is staying focused on numerous life science experiments aboard the International Space Station today while gearing up for three spacewalks in June....

As first pointed out by the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild, black holes bend space-time to an extreme degree due to their extraordinary concentration of mass, and heat up the matter in their vicinity so that it beg...

What would have been the first national security mission for United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket will be flown by Atlas 5, the company confirmed May 19. SpaceNews

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The European Space Agency presented a vision Thursday to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth's closest neighbor.

As international teams across the world forge plans to revisit the moon, ESA is elaborating how best to facilitate this exploration.

A collection of the 3D objects from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is now available on a new platform from the Smithsonian Institution. This will allow greater access to these unique 3D models and prints for institutio...

When scientists hunt for life, they often look for biosignatures, chemicals or phenomena that indicate the existence of present or past life. Yet it isn't necessarily the case that the signs of life on Earth are signs of...

Neutron stars might be bigger than previously thought, a study inspired by recent measurements of lead atoms suggests.

Ever felt the need to get somewhere really, really quickly? Would Mach 17 work? That's the speed a new prototype engine from researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) could potentially hurl an aircraft throu...

Virgin Galactic will attempt its next SpaceShipTwo suborbital test flight as soon as May 22 after resolving concerns about the maintenance of its carrier aircraft. SpaceNews

China will follow a policy of might-makes-right in the solar system to bend the world to Beijing's will. Fortunately, the United States can still stop Beijing from seizing exclusive control over space resources if Washin...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has discovered 201 pulsars, i...